Communities across the region have been rocked by the news that their post offices face the axe. The Northern Echo has launched a campaign to highlight the work of local communites in their fight to save the threatened branches.
Under threat post offices thrown lifeline
7:43am Friday 14th November 2008
MORE than 150 of the region’s threatened post offices were thrown a surprise lifeline yesterday when the Government abandoned plans to offer a £1bn contract to the private sector.
Comments (0)Fight over future of benefit accounts
8:10am Tuesday 11th November 2008
THOUSANDS of people in the North-East have lobbied their MPs to award a benefits account to the Post Office.
Post Office account move could hit jobs
8:14am Monday 10th November 2008
CAMPAIGNERS fear hundreds more post offices in the region could be forced to close if a private company is allowed to run the account used by benefit claimants.
Post office’s last letter is village plea to Mr Brown
8:49am Monday 13th October 2008
THE last letter sent from a village post office shutting in the latest round of closures will tell the Prime Minister what effect its loss will have.
Further 80 post offices to go in cuts
10:50am Wednesday 3rd September 2008
THE Post Office yesterday confirmed that 80 branches in the region will close as part of cuts.
Queues at post office ahead of further closures
8:17am Tuesday 2nd September 2008
Post Office customers queued into the street at times yesterday as branch closures began to bite in one town, and the scenes could be repeated across other parts of the region as more closures are announced today. Lauren Pyrah reports
Community rallies for threatened post office
11:06am Wednesday 13th August 2008
MEMBERS of a community are overwhelmingly opposed to the closure of their local post office, a survey has revealed.
Big response over post office closures
7:50am Monday 11th August 2008
THE Post Office has received more than 2,000 responses to its plans to close 80 branches across the North-East.
Activists in quest to save branch
7:53am Monday 11th August 2008
TWO community activists have started a campaign to save their local post office from closure.
Post offices decision a ‘failure of democracy’
12:13pm Wednesday 30th July 2008
OPPOSITION councillors said a decision to allow the closure of post offices in a town was a "failure of democracy".
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